Re: How much latency do you add to torrents?

Oliver <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 09:42:54 +0100, D <[email protected]> wrote 
> 
>> This is easy! I live in a jurisdiction where pirating content is not 
>> illegal. It is illegal to spread content, making it available, but not to 
>> download it.
> 
> It's not so much pirating but just basic privacy.
> 
> What if you happen to be gay, for example, and you downloaded gay movies.

Ignoring the latent homophobia, what on earth is a "gay movie"!? I didn't
realise that gay people had their own film catalogue. If I watch one does
that make me gay?

> It's not illegal but you'd still want to have some anonymity when doing it.
> 
> Anyway, the question has been fleshed out that there is value to adding
> random latency between the act of obtaining a magnet & the act of using it.

No it hasn't. One person has maybe been persuaded by your paranoia around
"them" spying on you based on no facts at all. 

> The only question to be answered here is how much time most people wait.

You mean how much time people are willing to "waste". 

Everyone has acknowledged no negative repercussions to their current
behaviour. There's no need to be act any different.